ST See also:MAXIMUS (c. 58o-662)
, See also:- ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
abbot of Chrysopolis, known as " the See also:Confessor " from his orthodox zeal in the Monothelite (q.v.) controversy, or as " the See also:- MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
- MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
- MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
- MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)
monk," was See also:born of See also:noble parentage at See also:Constantinople about the See also:year 580
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Educated with See also:great care, he See also:early became distinguished by his talents and acquirements, and some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time after the See also:accession of the See also:emperor See also:Heraclius in 610 was made his private secretary
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In 63o he abandoned the See also:secular See also:life and entered the monastery of Chrysopolis (See also:Scutari), actuated, it was believed, less by any longing for the life of a recluse than by the dissatisfaction he See also:felt with the Monothelite leanings of his See also:master
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The date of his promotion to the abbacy is uncertain
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In 633 he was one of the party of See also:Sophronius of See also:Jerusalem (the See also:chief See also:original opponent of the See also:Monothelites) at the See also:council of See also:Alexandria; and in 645 he was again in See also:Africa, when he held in presence of the See also:governor and a number of bishops the disputation with See also:Pyrrhus, the deposed and banished See also:patriarch of Constantinople, which resulted in the (temporary) See also:conversion of his interlocutor to the Dyothelite view
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In the following year several See also:African synods, held under the See also:influence of See also:Maximus, declared for orthodoxy
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In 649, after the accession of See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
Martin I., he went to See also:Rome, and did much to See also:fan the zeal of the new See also:pope, who in
See also:October of that year held the (first) Lateran See also:synod, by which not only the Monothelite See also:doctrine but also the moderating ecthesis of Heraclius and typus of See also:Constans II. were anathematized
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About 653 Maximus, for the See also:part he had taken against the latter document especially, was apprehended (together with the pope) by See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of Constans and carried a prisoner to Constantinople
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In 655, after repeated See also:examinations, in which he maintained his theological opinions with memorable constancy, he was banished to Byzia in See also:Thrace, and afterwards to Perberis
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In 662 he was again brought to Constantinople and was condemned by a synod to be scourged, to have his See also:tongue cut out by the See also:root, and to have his right See also:hand chopped off
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After this See also:sentence had been carried out he was again banished to Lazica, where he died on the 13th of See also:August 662
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He is venerated as a See also:saint both in the See also:Greek and in the Latin Churches
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Maximus was not only a See also:leader in the Monothelite struggle but a mystic who zealously followed and advocated the See also:system of Pseudo-See also:Dionysius, while adding to it an ethical See also:element in the conception of the freedom of the will
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His See also:works had considerable influence in shaping the system of See also:John Scotus See also:Erigena
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The most important of the works of Maximus will be found in See also:Migne, Patrologia graeca, xc. xci., together with an See also:anonymous life; an exhaustive See also:list in Wagenmann's See also:article in vol. xii
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(1903) of Hauck-See also:Herzog's Realencyklopadie where the following See also:classification is adopted : (a) exegetical, (b) scholia on the Fathers, (c) dogmatic and controversial, (d) ethical and ascetic, (e) See also:miscellaneous
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The details of the disputation with Pyrrhus and of the martyrdom are given very fully and clearly in See also:Hefele's Conciliengeschichte, iii
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For further literature see H
.
Gelzer in C
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See also:Krumbacher's Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur (1897)
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